FTC Press Releases

The FTC publishes press releases announcing enforcement actions, settlements, and initiatives related to antitrust law and consumer protection.

The Federal Trade Commission is an independent agency responsible for enforcing federal antitrust statutes and consumer-protection laws. The FTC's authority extends to unfair methods of competition affecting commerce and unfair or deceptive acts or practices affecting consumers. The Commission's Bureau of Competition enforces the Sherman Act and the Clayton Act; the Bureau of Consumer Protection enforces statutes governing consumer transactions, privacy, data security, and unfair business practices.

The FTC's press-release channel announces enforcement actions and policy initiatives: civil complaints and settlements against firms accused of antitrust violations or unfair competition, consumer-protection enforcement against deceptive or unfair business practices, negotiated consent orders establishing remedies and behavioral requirements, civil penalties and monetary awards, and consumer redress or refund programs established through settlements.

Pressure releases summarize allegations against defendants, factual bases for enforcement actions, agreed remedies and behavioral requirements, monetary penalties imposed, and any consumer compensation programs or data-security enhancements mandated. Readers will encounter a range of enforcement matters including merger investigations and challenges, monopoly and exclusive-dealing enforcement, price-fixing and bid-rigging cases, privacy violations and data-security breaches, identity theft and fraud schemes, and violations of specific consumer-protection statutes. Each release provides an accessible overview of an enforcement action, with references to detailed complaint documents, consent orders, and factual records filed with the Commission and available through its website.

Model-written orientation, generated 2026-08-04 by haiku, prompt version 1. It may draw on general knowledge of public institutions and is not official-record content.

The RSS feed provides teaser-length descriptions with full article text extracted from linked pages. Over 14 days, 8 items arrived at 0.57 per day, declining from the previous 0.86 per day. Extracted text averaged 12,226 characters per item. Our requests to www.ftc.gov achieved a 1.4% error rate across 356 attempts, with 5 no-content responses; prior measurement showed 100% success. The most recent item was published on 2026-09-04. Publication remains infrequent, and individual items carry substantial extracted content.

Model-written assessment of our own ingestion, generated 2026-09-05 by haiku, prompt version 1, trigger: age-30d. It restates our measured figures and is not official-record content.